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hi there i wanted to know if there is more people like me that has been real tired i have no energy my side hurts so bad .... my stomach seems to be real bloted...amber thank you
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Mon, September 4, 2006 - 3:22 PMHi Amber, I know the symptoms well, you could very well have ascities which is a build up of fluid in the abdominal cavity. This needs to be controlled so I recommend you see a Hepatoligis or at least a GPMD to have this diagnosed, get the proper meds and get the tummy drained if need be. This is a very serious condition so please please please follow my advice. (I just spent 8 days in the Hospital over a serious bout with this condition and only just got out today)!!!!!!! -
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Mon, September 4, 2006 - 5:26 PMThanks for the education on ascities Mike NMH.
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Mon, September 4, 2006 - 8:34 PMthanks mike i hope you get better..... -
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Wed, September 6, 2006 - 3:26 PMOne day a farmer's donkey fell down into a
well. The animal cried piteously for hours as
the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the
well needed to be covered up anyway;
it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and
help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began
to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the
donkey realized what was happening and cried
horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he
quieted down.
A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally
looked down the well. He was astonished at what
he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his
back, the donkey was doing something amazing.
He would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel
dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it
off and take a step up.
Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey
stepped up over the edge of the well and
happily trotted off!
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds
of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well
is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of
our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out
of the deepest wells just by not stopping,
never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.
Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.
Free your mind from worries - Most never happen.
Live simply and appreciate what you have.
Give more.
Expect less
NOW ............
Enough of that crap . . . The donkey later came back,
and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him.
The gash from the bite got infected and
the farmer eventually died in agony from septic shock.
MORAL FROM TODAY'S LESSON:
When you do something wrong, and try to cover
your ass, it always comes back to bite you.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. -
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Thu, September 7, 2006 - 9:49 PMFor 20 years Amber, off and on, 20 years. Some of us ARE symptomatic. My heart goes out to you, tummy trouble is such a not good thing. Between being tired and having a tummy ache, so much for the social life, eh?
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Fri, September 8, 2006 - 2:25 PMyes you hit it on the nose beverly very tired
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Fri, September 8, 2006 - 8:47 PMI had fatigue so bad I came home to work 3 yrs ago. It took about a year of not fighting the rat race to start feeling better. Also being home allowed me to get my diet and excercise program more regimented and I started feeling much better.
I also have had deep piercing pain in the area of my liver for about 5 years. Of course the doc's keep telling me it has nothing to do with Hep C, even went through an upper GI to find nothing. I told those goofy docs I can tell you any time I have swelling, it hurts like hell.
I finally got an on call visit to radiology, and damn if I wasn't right, its not really my liver at all though as your liver has no pain receptors, but when it swells, the liver is a big solid organ, it displaces both the gall bladder and tears at the little filiments between the ribs.
Sometimes heat helps, sometimes ice helps, but actually changing my diet helped more than anything. Cutting out as many fats and garbage as I could, took about 6 months and no pain for almost 2 yrs now, well, that is until I went on treatment and now it hurts all the damn time.
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Fri, September 8, 2006 - 10:07 PMwow sounds like me what your desribing i get sharp pains seems like all the time and i know what you mean it hurts like hell ......i hope you get better sher and you proved docs dont always know what there talking about....amber -
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Sun, September 10, 2006 - 3:06 PMHi Amber...Sorry your feeling tired. I used to come home and fall asleep every night after work and always be too ill to enjoy weekends.
I also had the liver pain. My doc thought it was my kidney and sent me off for a scan and then they decided my uterus was getting in the way of my bladder and kidney so they gave me a hysterectomy (nothing too drastic) That really bought on the hvc symptoms after that. The tiredness though I know is frustrating and depressing.
Mike, hope you feel better soon.
Tracey -
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Mon, September 11, 2006 - 7:53 AMhi there tracy wow talk about drastic i hope you get better...i hate this so much tired and pains all the time it really sucks do you ever think about who gave this to you? i do and i used to be mad as hell now i get depressed about it...and am very much about telling people to be careful...amber -
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Mon, September 11, 2006 - 9:14 AMNever think about how I got it, you can get sucked into an endless abyss of regrets that way. At the end of the day it matters not one bit how you got it, now you have it and each day should be filled with how best to "live" with it. After 20+ yrs its just another aspect of my life, faaaaar from the defining one.
A positive attitude will be your best path find a way to get to one or this will be a long dark road....... -
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Mon, September 11, 2006 - 4:18 PMyour right and i know that it takes time...
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Mon, September 11, 2006 - 2:12 PMJust be careful when making this assumption my Dr. took this symptom immediatly as pain due to a swollen liver and prescribed pain killers (my condition precludes any over the counter meds) and hot towels and warned my that that may only lessen the pain rather then eloiminate it. There are some very good Drs. out there and I am lucky to have the ones that I have. -
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Mon, September 11, 2006 - 2:18 PMThat is ..."eliminate" not "eloiminate" -
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Tue, September 12, 2006 - 9:04 AMMy doctor said that most people don't feel the "liver pain" until they are DX'd with Hep. C. :)
Reality of it was I had been feely strange side pains for years but lived with it and sort of ignored it thinking that that's just the way it is... but then when I finally had an explaination for it he wrote it off has hypocondria. Pretty much saying all of us with Hep. C. don''t really have "liver pain". I go see a new doc next month. But what really bothers me is my chest, I've had numerous ultrasounds and tests to check gall bladder etc... but it never yields anything but a slightly swollen liver. Like somone said before, I think it was Sher, it's a really tight space in there which would explain the chest/ possible gall bladder pains. Oh- they've also been written off as panic attacks!! So I am all mental! :) -
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Tue, September 12, 2006 - 10:55 AMHey Tiffany I used to get that. I called the doc out one night because I thought I was having a heart attack (this was pre diagnosis) He told me I was having a panic attack because my heartbeat used to go crazy as well. I used to go to the doctor with a sore thoat that wasn't like a normal sore throat. indigestion, fatigue , headaches and joint pains. He thought I was a real hypocondriac but I knew things were not right. Strange, I haven't been to him once since getting rid of the virus.
I used to wonder at first at what point I picked up the virus. I know I got it from doing drugs but I haven't got a clue who gave it to me or when I got it. Like Sher said, you could really beat yourself up over it, better to focus on getting rid of it. I often wonder how I'd feel if I'd contracted it through a blood transfusion or another means that was no fault of my own. I think I would be angry and feel that fate had dealt me an unfair blow. I seldom think about how I got it now. I do sometimes wonder about the person who I think I got it from whom I've lost touch with and wonder if he knows he has Hep c. Hmm -
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Tue, September 12, 2006 - 1:01 PMDr.'s can be such idiots' and the worst ones are in the ER!!
I got my Hep C. thorough a blood transfusion and I pretty much feel alot of the things you mentioned but at the same time I feel relief too, Weird I know but I know now that there is an explanation for all my health problems. Even though the Dr. still feels I am a wacko I know deep down that there is a reason!! I too often wonder about the person I got it from. We know he was a nurse that donated frequently at the hospital he worked at, the same hospital I was born in. So of course my parent had no doubts about the blood there premature infant was given... This was before they tested it for Hep. C. Of course last year when we found out my mom tried to make a big deal at the hospital about it, but it's been 30 years....
I honesty feel no different in regards to how I got it, whether through something I did or didn't do- I still get treated like a leper.....In my opinion we are all in the same boat whether we got picked by fate to be in it or we got into thinking it was going somewhere fun. -
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Wed, September 13, 2006 - 6:30 AMI used to feel like a leper, now I want to confront ignorance and stamp it out. When I get a real job, I want to travel all over being a hep c activist.
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Wed, September 13, 2006 - 3:33 PMI agree about the relief in finding out why you feel so ill on and off for years. when you know something's wrong but there's no explaination.
I can understand you Mum being mad about it. Yeah, we all get treated like lepers whatever. I don't care so much now about telling people in fact it comes quite easy. Most of them have never even heard of it.
Tracey
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